Richard Wright - Black Boy

List of Interviewees


In order of appearance
Amiri Baraka
Author/poet/essayist/music critic/ musician/playwright/professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
John Henrik Clarke
Noted historian/professor emeritus, Hunter College, New York
Margaret Walker Alexander
Lecturer/professor of English, Livingstone College/author, For My People, Jubilee/Wright Biographer, Daemonic Genius
Maryemma Graham
Literary critic/Professor, Northeastern University, Boston
Ben Burns
Journalist/former Communist Party member/executive editor of Ebony magazine
Cedric Robinson
Political scientist
Ralph Ellison
Author, Invisible Man
Allen Willis
Former resident of Chicago's "South Side"
Michael Dyson
Literary critic/professor of communications studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Joyce Ann Joyce
Literary critic/author, Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy; 1986
Constance Webb
Wright biographer, Richard Wright: A Biography; 1968
Essie Lee Davis
Wright's classmate, Jackson, Mississippi
Minnie Farrish
Wright's classmate, Jackson, Mississippi
Eugene Frederick
Postal worker
Ishmael Flory
Activist
Mark Naison
Historian/professor of African-American studies, Fordham University, New York
Thomas Cripps
Film historian
Willie Morris
Author, North Towards Home/former editor- in-chief, Harper's magazine
Ollie Harrington
Artist
Michel Fabre
Essayist/editor/professor at the Sorbonne, Paris/Wright biographer, Richard Wright: Books and Writers
Julia Wright
Wright's eldest daughter/freelance journalist/special consultant to the documentary
Roscoe Stallworth
Musician, Paris
George Whitman
Bookseller, Shakespeare & Co., Paris
Richard Gibson
Journalist, Paris
Jerry Ward
Literary critic/professor of English, Tougaloo College, Mississippi

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